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Letters Patent No. 96,515, dated November 2, 1869.

IMPROVED BROOM AND BRUSH-HOLDER.

4 The Schedule eferred to in these Letters Patent and making part ofthe same.

To ZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, BENJAMIN D. WALLACE, of Boston, county of Suffolk, and Commonwealth of Massachusetts', have iuventeda new and useful Broom and Brush.Holder;r und I hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the sume, reference. being had to-the accompanying drawings, making a partof this specitieation, and the letters of reference marked thereon, in which thesam letter represents the sume. thing in each figure.

Figure l is a front View of myiinventiou, showing the manner in which a broom or brush is held in it.

Figure is a sectional View of the same.

The object of my invention is to furnish a device for securely holding a broom or brush, and at lthe same time allowing it to be. quickly removed or replaced.

1n the use of an article so often required :is a broom or brush, the trouble-of hanging it by a loop, or similnr device, t0 a unil, isrirksome, while, if the. article is allowed to remain standing, it is not. only a source ot' ineonvenienee, b v being in theway, but it also wears a piet-e ol' metal or frame, ofconvenient form for fasten ing to :l wall, a jaw or holder, of metal, which can more freely on a pin, by which it is fastened to said piece ofmetnl or frame, and which ispressed down by a springr 0r piece of wire, fastened to the frame in the rear ot" the jaw at one end, Athe other end being,r

used for pressing down the jaw.

Upon the trame of the holderI put two small protnln-ranees, one above and the other below the extremity of the jaw, and suoli a distance apart as to allow suliicicnt movement of the jaw, their object being to prevent the jaw from being elevated or lowered too much.

The end of the frame' opposite tothe spring is bent up such a distancoas that the handle of a broom or brush, pressed against it by the jaw and spring, shall be securely held, and to make this more certuilnl raise the. upper and lower edge of this extremity, so as more securely' to grasp it. I

Through the centre ofthe frame is a holel for screwing, or otherwise fastening the holder to the wall, or wherever else it may be desired to place it.

lo enable others skilled in the-arl'. to make and use my invention, I will now proceed to describe its construction and operation.

A is the frame of the device.

b is a jaw, which is to be clamped down on the haudle 'of a broom or brush by the spring c, and is fastened to the ii'ame by a pin, or in any other suitable manner, so as to allow motion freely.

.At d the spring c'is fastened to a projection, e, to the frame, in any suitable manner. 1

At f and g are shown small protuberanccs for the purposes mentioned above.

The extremity 11. of the frame is bent up', as shown in the drawings, for the purpose above indicated.

The raised edges of this part are shown at i and j.

The screw for fastening the frame to -the wall is shown at k. Y

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by -Letters Patent, is

The arrangement of the clamps b and h., spring c,

projection e, in combination with frame A and Screwv has shown and described.

' BENJ.. D. WALLACE.

Witnesses:

A. K. P. J oY, Crus. H. DREW. 

